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Sestina

James Cummins

Issue 126, Spring 1993

So bondage is a big part of it, after all—that old art of rendering a lover submissive:a tactic, a strategy. Denying somebody’s bodythe power to move denies that body the powerto be believed. Isn’t that what’s so sexual?The intimate plea? The fear you can’t go back?